Small and advanced nuclear reactors are key to meeting future low-carbon dioxide energy demands, so much attention has been ...

Oklo, a nuclear start-up, aims to design, build, and operate small modular reactors, projecting their first plant by late ...

The future of shipping sails through Norwegian waters as experts test the viability of cutting-edge nuclear reactors for ...

The advanced reactor designs operate at high temperatures and are mostly cooled by materials other than water, like salt or gas. They have more passive safety features than the Generation II and ...

Advanced nuclear reactors would include the ... as well as a high-temperature gas-cooled reactor that X-Energy Reactor Co. plans to build that will use the nuclear fuel that the company’s ...

A reactor at a nuclear power station went offline over Christmas, an energy provider has confirmed. EDF Energy said the ...

The Generation IV International Forum (GIF) is exploring six advanced reactor technologies: Gas-Cooled Fast Reactor (GFR), Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor (LFR), Molten Salt Reactor (MSR), Sodium-Cooled ...

Water cooled reactors have played a significant role in ... factory-built integral pressurized water reactors. While a number of advanced WCRs are currently under construction and available for ...

When it opened in 1976, its two advanced gas-cooled reactors (AGRs) were state of the art. But over nearly half a century of generation, cracks developed in their graphite cores, creating ...

Heysham 1 began operating in 1983. It has two advanced gas cooled reactors, which are scheduled for closure in 2027. The second plant started generating in 1988 and, like Heysham 1, has two ...